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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

acts in the said Ordinance before required to be done
by the Mayor, Councillors, Town Clerk, Collector, or
other officers, before such officers could be appointed
or elected under the provision of the said Ordinance:
And whereas by the fortieth section of the said
Ordinance, the Mayor and Councillors of any town
incorporated under the said Ordinance (in the said
section called "the Council") are constituted open
Courts for the Revision of the Citizens' Lists, and
for hearing and determining the claims of the citizens
thereof to be inserted in such lists, and the objections
of such citizens to any other citizen having his name
retained thereon: And whereas it is expedient to
appoint a fit and proper person to perform the acts
required to be done by the Mayor and Councillors,
as constituting Courts of Revision under the said
fortieth section of the said Ordinance, and to do the
several other matters and things directed and required
by the said Ordinance in the revision of the Citizens'
List for the said incorporated Town of South Inver-
cargill:

Now, therefore, I, George McLean, Executive
Officer for the Provincial District of Otago, in exer-
cise of the powers vested in me by the said "Otago
Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," and of all
other powers in any wise enabling me in this behalf,
do hereby nominate and appoint

MR. JOHN MAHER

to perform the acts required to be done by the Council
in the revision of Citizens' List for the Town of
South Invercargill, and hearing and determining the
claims of the citizens thereof to be inserted in such
list, and the objections of such citizens to any other
citizen having his name retained thereon.

As witness my hand, this thirteenth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six.

GEO. MCLEAN,
Executive Officer for the Provincial District
of Otago.

Appointment of Cattle Inspector.

Provincial Buildings,
Wellington, 21st November, 1876.

IN virtue of the power vested in me, I do hereby
appoint

Mr. THOMAS G. RICHARDSON

to be Inspector of Cattle for the District of Welling-
ton, under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871."

HENRY BUNNY.

Wardens of Masterton Highway District appointed.

Provincial Buildings,
Wellington, 20th November, 1876.

NOTICE has been received by me, that the follow-
ing gentlemen have been elected as Wardens
for the Masterton Highway District, viz.,-
Mr. FREDERICK B. CHAMBERS-No. 5 Ward.
Mr. JOSEPH BENNETT-No. 6 Ward.

HENRY BUNNY.

Medical Referee appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1876.

THE under-mentioned gentleman has been appointed
Medical Referee, under "The Government In-
surance and Annuities Act, 1874," at the Bay of
Islands, vice S. H. Ford Esq., M.R.C.S.E., deceased:-

ALFRED AGASSIZ, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.

J. WOODWARD,
Deputy-Commisioner.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical
Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1876.

THE attention of the persons or person within the
Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested
ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious
bodies enumerated in the schedule annexed to an
Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand
intituled "The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1876,"
and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the
forty-fourth section of "The Marriage Act, 1854,"
requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as
aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General a cor-
rect list, in the month of December in every year, of
the Officiating Ministers within the meaning of "The
Marriage Act, 1854," of each of the said religious
bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above re-
ferred to:-

The Church of the Province of New Zealand,
commonly called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Presbyterian Church of Otago and South-
land.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Connection.
The United Methodist Free Churches.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

With respect to Ministers of Religion not con-
nected with any of the aforesaid bodies, it is neces-
sary that a certificate signed by twenty-four house-
holders resident in the district, declaring that such
Minister is their Officiating Minister, the said certi-
ficate being attested by two Justices of the Peace,
shall be sent to the Registrar-General in the month
of December in each year. The neglect in sending
such last-named certificate will deprive the Minister
of his status as an Officiating Minister under the
Marriage Acts.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

N.B. It is requested that the Christian names
and the addresses of the several Ministers may be
specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

Sale of Town and Rural Lands, Land District of
Canterbury.

Land Office,
Christchurch, 14th November, 1876.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Waste Lands
Regulations and "The Waste Lands Adminis-
tration Act, 1876," the Waste Lands Board give
notice that a Sale by Auction of Town and Rural
Lands will be held at the Land Office, Christchurch,
on Wednesday, the 3rd of January, 1877, at 11 o'clock
in the forenoon.

Applications will be received at any sitting of the
Board up to Thursday, the 14th of December next.

JOHN MARSHMAN,
Chief Commissioner.